Library Announcements
The library now has a name: The Charlotte Edwards Maguire Medical Library
Dr. Maguire
On Friday, February 25, 2005, in a ceremony at the College of Medicine
in the atrium of the Thrasher Building,
FSU Foundation and Board of Trustees dedicated the Charlotte Edwards Maguire
Medical Library.
We are delighted to be associated with such an accomplished physician and
community leader.
A biography of Dr. Maguire is available on the library website at:
http://med.fsu.edu/library/CharlotteMaguire/
Featured Online Resource - New "My NCBI" Feature in PubMed
My NCBI Replaces the Cubby: Includes Automatic E-mailing of Search Updates and Filters.
The PubMedŽ Cubby has been replaced by My NCBI.
My NCBI works similarly to the Cubby in that it retains user information in order to provide additional services.
To use My NCBI you must be signed in. You can sign in using an existing Cubby account,
or if you do not have an account,
you can register for a My NCBI account.
My NCBI features:
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Saved Searches:
Similar to the Cubby stored search feature,
you can save search strategies in order to generate updates -
including automatic e-mail updates.
- Filters: Group your retrieval by topics of interest to you.
You can also add an icon to the filters with links to resources provided by outside organizations.
(This function replaces the LinkOut preferences in Cubby.)
Figure 1
Link to PubMed in the scrollbox on the
Medical Library web site.
To start using this NCBI feature, click on the PubMed link located on the Medical Libraries main Webpage.
(Figure 1)
Next, click on the cubby link located on the left hand side of the page.
(Figure 2)
Figure 2
Click on "My NCBI (Cubby)
Figure 3
Use your Cubby user name to sign in.
Using My NCBI
To use My NCBI features, sign in using your Cubby user name/password. (Figure
3) If do not have a Cubby user name, you must register for an account.
Click on Register to go to the Register page, and fill in the requested information and click on
the Register button.
My NCBI includes a new Filters feature which groups search results by areas of interest.
You can have up to five active filters using My NCBI.
To the right of the "All" tab, the hammer and wrench icon will link you to My NCBI
where you can add or modify filters. (Figure 4)
Figure 4
Others filters of interest will let you limit to practice guidelines, review articles,
and limits to full text articles that are available at FSU.
For more information and assistance please feel free to call or visit with Barbara, Suzanne and Nadine in the medical library.
For tutorial and detailed information:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf05/jf05_myncbi.html
Featured PDA Resource - New Look and New Search Tool in ePocrates on the PDA
Figure 1.
ePocrates released a new version of Pro around the first of December, 2004.
This is their attempt to sell you their expanded package called ePocrates Essentials
which includes a disease reference like 5MCC and a lab tool very much like Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests.
New downloads will look like this. (Figure 1)
Instead of the four tabs, Drugs, Alt, Tables and the little black bag, there are six tabs.
The alternative medicine and prescription drugs are now combined into one large index.
The alternative medications are in a gold color while the prescription drugs are black.
The Pro version has an ad for Essentials under Dx and Lab.
The Infectious Disease tool, ID, has it’s own tab, but works just like it did before.
The Tables have not changed, and the little black bag only has Doc Alerts in it.
If you download the med tools (Palm only) they will appear here.
Figure 3.
Figure 2.
New Search Tool
Added to the tool bar at the bottom of the screen is a magnifying glass that pulls up a Search Tool.
Figure 2 shows you the various ways you can search.
If you search to find asthma in Drugs-Indications, for example,
you get a list of drugs for which asthma is an indication. (Figure 3)
If you tap on one of the drugs, it takes you back to the article on that drug in the Rx section.
Figure 4.
New MultiCheck Functionality
In the latest version of eProcrates Pro released in December 2004, Multicheck,
the drug interaction tool in ePocrates, now not only runs drug-drug interactions,
but also will run IV compatibilities and IV solution compatabilities.
You add drugs the same way as with the earlier version, but now have two buttons. (Figure 4)
The Drugs button runs a drug-drug interaction, while the IV button looks at the IV compatibility
of the drugs.
You can enter one drug and check its IV compatibility with solutions like D5-NS.
Off Campus Access to the Virtual Medical Library
From off campus to use the Library resources you must do the following:
- Click on Off-Campus Access (EZProxy) at the top of Library page:
www.med.fsu.edu/library.
- Click Login to COM EZProxy button.
- Type your FSU COM UserID and Password in the blanks provided (firstname.lastname).
If you do not know your FSU COM UserID and Password, contact the regional
campus ET staff:
- Orlando: Claudin Pierre-Louis (407) 835-4103
- Pensacola: Chris Clark (850) 494-5939 x125
- Tallahassee: Shane Marshall (850) 645-1257
- or on campus, the IT helpdesk (644-3664) for help.
- Click Login to COM EZProxy button.
- Click on Start EZProxy and Return to the College of Medicine Library (click
here)
- This takes you back to the Library Homepage. Notice that all URLs now
contain the phrase:
". . . ezproxy.med.fsu.edu/."
- You must follow links from the Library page to get
to resources and make sure this phrase stays in the URL. If it links you
out, and that phrase vanishes, you are no longer connected to EZProxy.
You will know you are kicked out of the proxy if a site asks you for a
UserID and Password. If you think this should not the Medical Library
immediately. We have discovered some sites that the Medical Library immediately.
We have discovered some sites that do this and have fixed them as they
are brought to our attention.
